Life, Love & Literature

The moti­va­tion for and the high­light of last week’s project was a coach trip to Cad­bury World.  Was a long day, and I thought it was a bit rub­bish, but the boys really enjoyed them­selves and that is the most impor­tant thing.

After a 3 1/2 hr coach ride and the boys first ever visit to a motor­way ser­vice sta­tion we finally arrived, had some lunch and burnt some energy in the African themed playground.

  

Then it was our turn in the exhi­bi­tion and we went into an Aztec for­est and met some conquistadors. 

Before arriv­ing in a Geor­gian Town Square for a video presentation.

  

Then after a tour of the pack­ing area we queued up for the Cadabra ride — over 20 mins!  We had no idea what it was but Sam wanted to see.

    

It con­sisted of sit­ting in a lit­tle car (imag­ine Noddy) and going around a track for 5 mins past mod­els of cocoa beans with faces.  Boys were not impressed.  I was immensely amused at the kitschness of it and that through a mar­vel­lous feat of mar­ket­ing (all they tell you is the name and along the queu­ing area are lit­tle plaques telling you the esti­mated queue­ing time from there — which start at 40mins). they were able to get even groups of adults to queue for up to 40 mins…

More fac­tory and some tasting.

 

Then a walk through a ‘choco­late street’ with videos of old adverts and into a games section.                               

Finally to a sep­a­rate exhi­bi­tion this time about Dairy Milk, with more tast­ing.  This time they got to add a ‘top­ping’ (bis­cuits for them, wine gums for me).

  

And finally it was time to go home.  But not until they’d spent the pocket money they’d been sav­ing in the largest Cad­bury Shop in the World.